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Article: Nomar finds peace; Garciaparra, now a Dodger, says latest move makes the most sense.(Sports)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2006
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Byline: ROSS NEWHAN Los Angeles Times
Amid a picturesque sunset on the Manhattan Beach pier, a few blocks from their new home and the bags that needed to be packed for the trip to Vero Beach, it was easy to accept their conviction, as Nomar Garciaparra and Mia Hamm put it, that they have never been in a better place, metaphorically and otherwise.
He was a Boston Red Sox icon, toppled by blows to body and mind, who now approaches a crossroads as a first baseman with his hometown Los Angeles Dodgers, convinced he is ready, physically and mentally, to regain his elite status and pursue it in front of family and friends.
She was/is a global ...